Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
John Buchan (18751940)
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
JOHN BUCHAN, general introduction to The Nations of Today, a series of popular histories published in 19231924 under Buchans editorship. Each work contained Buchans introduction.Great Britain, vol. 1, p. 12 (1923).